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Dissertations

[PhD] Ayoung Kim, Active Visual SLAM with Exploration for Autonomous Underwater Navigation, PhD thesis, University of Michigan.
- Full thesis [pdf] (21.8MB) / Extended abstract [pdf] (2.6MB)

[MS] Ayoung Kim, Stiffness Analysis and Hybrid Control for Parallel Manipulator, MS thesis, Seoul National University.
- Abstract [pdf]

Journal Papers

3. Ayoung Kim and Ryan M. Eustice, Real-Time Visual SLAM for Autonomous Underwater Hull Inspection using Visual Saliency, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 29(3):719-733, 2013.

2. Franz S. Hover, Ryan M. Eustice, Ayoung Kim, Brendan Englot, Hordur Johannsson, Michael Kaess and John J. Leonard, Advanced perception, navigation and planning for autonomous in-water ship hull inspection. International Journal of Robotics Research, Special Issue on 3D Exploration, Mapping, and Surveillance 31(12):1445-1464, 2012.

1. Hunter C. Brown, Ayoung Kim and Ryan M. Eustice, An overview of autonomous underwater vehicle research and testbed at PeRL. Marine Technology Society Journal, 43(2):33-47, 2009.

Conference Papers

9. Stephen M. Chaves, Ayoung Kim and Ryan M. Eustice, "Opportunistic sampling-based planning for active visual SLAM", In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Chicago, IL, USA, September 2014. (Accepted, To Appear).

8. Ayoung Kim and Ryan M. Eustice, "Perception-Driven Navigation: Active Visual SLAM for Robotic Area Coverage", In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) pages 3181-3188, Karlsruhe, Germany, May 2013.

7. Ayoung Kim and Ryan M. Eustice, "Next-best-view visual SLAM for bounded-error area coverage", In IROS Workshop on Active Semantic Perception, Vilamoura, Portugal, Oct. 2012

6. Ayoung Kim and Ryan M. Eustice, "Combined visually and geometrically informative link hypothesis for pose-graph visual SLAM using bag-of-words", In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pages 1647-1654, San Francisco, CA, September 2011.

5. Ayoung Kim and Ryan M. Eustice, "Toward AUV survey design for optimal coverage and localization using the cramer rao lower bound", In Proceedings of the IEEE/MTS OCEANS Conference and Exhibition, Biloxi, MS, 2009.

4. Ayoung Kim and Ryan M. Eustice, "Pose-graph visual SLAM with geometric model selection for autonomous underwater ship hull inspection", In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pages 1559-1565, St. Louis, MO, 2009.

3. Hunter C. Brown, Ayoung Kim and Ryan M. Eustice, Development of a multi-AUV SLAM testbed at the University of Michigan", In Proceedings of the IEEE/MTS OCEANS Conference and Exhibition, pages 1-6, Quebec, Canada, 2008.

2. Ryan M. Eustice, Hunter C. Brown and Ayoung Kim, "An overview of AUV algorithms research and testbed at the University of Michigan", In Proceedings of the IEEE/OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Conference, pages 1-9, Woods Hole, MA, 2008.

1. A-Young Kim, Sitae Kim, Jay-Il Jeong, Jongwon Kim, and F.C. Park "Exploiting Redundant Actuation to Enhance the Static Stiffness of Parallel Mechanisms", The 13th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, August 21-24, 2007, Jeju, Korea